Grief


Art Film Literature


Art


Bak, Samuel     The Family
    The Ghetto
Bartley, Mary Anne     Aerobics of the Spirit
Blake, William     The Body of Abel Found by Adam and Eve
    Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils
Chapman, Jake and Dinos     Great Deeds against the Dead
Courbet, Gustave     A Burial at Ornans
David, Jacques-Louis     Death of Marat
    The Death of Socrates
Des Granges, David     The Saltonstall Family
Dubuffet, Jean     A Widow
Fildes, Sir Luke     The Doctor
Garcia, Emanuel E.     Aerobics of the Spirit
Goya, Francisco     Execution of the Defenders of Madrid, 3rd May 1808
Kahlo, Frida     El suicidio de Dorothy Hale (Suicide of Dorothy Hale)
    Frida and the Miscarriage
    Henry Ford Hospital
    Tree of Hope
    Without Hope
Kashi, Ed     Aging in America
Klimt, Gustav     Hope, II
Kollwitz, Käthe     Farewell (Abschied)
    Woman with Dead Child
Layton, Elizabeth     The Courtroom
Matuschka,     Matuschka Archive
Munch, Edvard     Compassion
    The Dance of Life
    The Dead Mother
    Death in the Sickroom (Ein Tod)
    The Scream
    The Sick Child
Neel, Alice     Investigation of Poverty, Russell Sage Foundation
    Loneliness
Picasso, Pablo     Guernica
    The Old Guitarist (The Blind Guitarist)
    Science and Charity
    The Tragedy
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Salgado, Sebastiao     An Uncertain Grace
Scherer, Deidre     Surrounded by Family and Friends
Sendak, Maurice     Dear Mili: An Old Tale (Wilhelm Karl Grimm)
Sigler, Hollis     Hoping to Bring Her Life Together...It's Not Hard, It Just Takes Time
    To Kiss the Spirits: Now, This Is What It Is Really Like
Simberg, Hugo     The Garden of Death
Smith, Kiki     Josephine
Tooker, George     Corporate Decision
Winokur, Julie     Aging in America


Film


    About Schmidt
    Alice Neel
    All About My Mother
    Almost Strangers
    American Beauty
    Article 99
    Artificial Intelligence: AI
    The Barbarian Invasions
    The Body Beautiful
    The Body Snatcher
    Born on the Fourth of July
    Bright Star
    Bringing Out the Dead
    The Color of Paradise
    Common Threads
    Creation: How Darwin Saw the World and Changed It Forever
    Death on Request
    Departures (Okuribito)
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Down Came a Blackbird
    Dr. Monica
    Dust to Dust (Por la libre)
    The English Patient
    Far From Heaven
    God Said, Ha!
    The Green Mile
    Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine
    The HeART of Empathy: Using the Visual Arts in Medical Eduation
    Holding Our Own: Embracing the End of Life
    The House of God
    I've Loved You So Long (Il ya longtemps que je t'aime)
    Indestructible
    The Keys to the House (Le chiavi di casa)
    Lorenzo's Oil
    Madame Curie
    Marvin's Room
    Melancholia
    Memento
    Mother and Son
    The Motorcycle Diaries
    Murderball
    My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv som hund]
    My Life Without Me
    Mystic River
    Nowhere in Africa (Nirgendwo in Afrika)
    The Official Story (La Historia oficia)
    Opera Therapy
    Ordinary People
    Out of the Ashes
    The Plague
    Regeneration
    Requiem for a Dream
    Respiro
    Road to Wellville
    The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
    The Secret Garden
    The Secret Garden
    Shadowlands
    She's Finally Free: Living with the Tragic Loss of Nancy Cruzan
    Singing Myself a Lullaby
    Smoke Signals
    The Snake Pit
    The Son's Room
    Spellbound
    Still Life: The Humanity of Anatomy
    The Sweet Hereafter
    Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (Boksuneun naui geot)
    The Syringa Tree
    Terms of Endearment
    Three Colors: Blue
    Tsotsi
    Twin Falls Idaho
    The Undertaking
    The Vanishing Line
    The War Zone
    Who the Hell Is Juliette? [Quién diablos es Juliette?]
    Wilbur (Wants to Kill Himself)
    World's Greatest Dad
    Y Tu Mamá También (And your mother too)
    Yesterday
    You Can Count on Me
    The Young Doctors
    A Zed and Two Noughts


Literature


Akhmatova, Anna     In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov
    Requiem
    Twenty-First. Night. Monday.
Alegria, Claribel     Sorrow/Saudade
Allende, Isabel     Paula
Anderson, Laurie Halse     Fever 1793
Anderson, M. F., ed.     Reflections from a Mud Puddle: Helping Children Cope and Grow
Anonymous,     Hurricane Zone
Ariès, Philippe     The Hour of Our Death
Armstrong, Campbell     I Hope You Have a Good Life
Aronson, Louise     A History of the Present Illness
Atwood, Margaret     Alias Grace
    The Blind Assassin
    Hairball
Austen, Jane     Sense and Sensibility
Austin, Paul     Something for the Pain
Author 2, Unknown     The Book of Job
B., David     Epileptic
Bacon, Katherine Jay     Finn
Baiev, Khassan     The Oath
Bakker, Gerbrand     The Twin
Bang, Mary Jo     Elegy
Banks, Russell     The Sweet Hereafter
Barker, Pat     Regeneration
Barnard, David, et al.     Crossing Over: Narratives of Palliative Care
Barnes, Djuna     Nightwood
Bass, Rick     The Lives of Rocks
Bauby, Jean-Dominique     The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bauer, Mark S., ed.     A Mind Apart
Bayley, John Oliver     Elegy for Iris
Bazell, Josh     Beat the Reaper
Beauvoir, Simone de     A Very Easy Death
Belli, A. & Coulehan, J., eds.     Blood and Bone: Poems by Physicians
Bellow, Saul     The Victim
Bennett, Alan     Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
Berg, Elizabeth     Durable Goods
    Range of Motion
    Talk Before Sleep
Berlin, R. M., ed.     Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment and the Creative Process
Berlin, Richard M.     Code Blue
    How JFK Killed My Father
Bertman, S. L., ed.     Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity as Therapy
Bertman, Sandra L.     Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions
Betjeman, John     Death in Leamington
Betts, Doris     Souls Raised from the Dead
Bialosky, J. & Schulman, H., eds.     Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood i
Biguenet, John     Fatherhood
Bissell, Tom     Death Defier
Bly, Carol     Gunnar's Sword
Bly, R. , et al., eds.     The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart
Boccaccio, Giovanni     Federigo's Falcon
Bock, Dennis     The Ash Garden
Bohjalian, Christopher A.     The Law of Similars
Bolin, Robert B.     Unwanted Inheritance
Bolton, Gillie     The Therapeutic Potential of Creative Writing: Writing Myself
Borden, Mary     The Forbidden Zone
Boyle, T. Coraghessan     The Road to Wellville
Brashler, Anne     He Read to Her
Brodkey, Harold     Dying: An Update
Brooks, Dorothy Howe     Life Support
Brooks, Geraldine     Year of Wonders
Brown, Carrie     Miniature Man
Brown, John     Rab and His Friends
Brown, Rebecca     The Gifts of the Body
Broyard, Anatole     Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death
Bryner, Jeanne     Blue Lace Socks
    Eclipse
Bulgakov, Mikhail     The Blizzard
    The Vanishing Eye
Burnham, Gregory     By That I Mean Angina Pectoris
Bush, Catherine     Claire's Head
Butler, Samuel     Erewhon
Butler, Sandra     Cancer in Two Voices
Byatt, A. S. (Antonia Susan)     Body Art
    A Stone Woman
Byers, Michael     Long for This World
Callanan, Maggie     Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying
Campo, Rafael     The Enemy
    The Healing Art: A Doctor's Black Bag of Poetry
Carruth, Hayden     Doctor Jazz: Poems 1996-2000
    Notes on Emphysema
Carter, Alden R.     Sheila's Dying
Carver, Raymond     A Small, Good Thing
Caspers, Nona     Vegetative States
Caston, Anne     Flying Out with the Wounded
Chabon, Michael     The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
    Son of the Wolfman
Chaon, Dan     Fitting Ends
Chekhov, Anton P.     An Anonymous Story
    The Bear
    The Beauties
    Enemies
    The Grasshopper
    The Kiss
    Misery
    On Easter Eve
    Rothschild's Fiddle
    Three Years
    Typhus
Chen, Pauline W.     Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality
Chopin, Kate     The Awakening
Clark-Sayles, Catharine     One Breath
Clary, Patrick     Dying for Beginners
Clyde, Mary     Survival Rates
Coe, Jonathan     The House of Sleep
Coetzee, J. M.     Slow Man
Cohen, Matt     Elizabeth and After
Cokal, Susann     Mirabilis
Coles, R. & Testa, R., eds.     A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology
Connelly, Joe     Bringing Out the Dead
Cook, Karin     What Girls Learn
Cooper, Bernard     The House of the Future
Corcoran, Barbara     Annie's Monster
Coulehan, J., ed.     Chekhov's Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov's Medical Tales
Coulehan, Jack     Anatomy Lesson
Couloumbis, Audrey     Getting Near to Baby
Couser, G. Thomas     Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
Cousins, N., ed.     The Physician in Literature
Crace, Jim     Being Dead
Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock     Olive
Crimmins, Cathy     Where is the Mango Princess?
Cromer, Janet M.     Professor Cromer Learns to Read
Culkin, Jennifer     A Final Arc of Sky: a Memoir of Critical Care
Cumming, Deborah     Recovering from Mortality
Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)     anyone lived in a pretty how town
Daniel, John     Looking After: A Son's Memoir
Darby, Ann     Pity My Simplicity
Dark, Alice Elliott     In the Gloaming
Darling, J. & Fuller, C., eds.     The Poetry Cure
DasGupta, S., & Hurst, M., eds.     Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies
Davis, C. & Schaefer, J., eds.     Intensive Care
Davis, Cortney     The Heart's Truth: Essays on the Art of Nursing
Davis, Heather Choate     Baptism by Fire
De Vries, Peter     The Blood of the Lamb
DeBaggio, Thomas     Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Defoe, Daniel     Robinson Crusoe
Derrida, Jacques     The Work of Mourning
Dickens, Charles     A Christmas Carol
    Doctor Marigold
Dickinson, Emily     After great pain, a formal feeling comes
    My life closed twice
Didion, Joan     Blue Nights
    The Year of Magical Thinking
Diedrich, Lisa     Treatments: Language, Politics, and the Culture of Illness
Dillard, Annie     Holy the Firm
Dixon, Paige     May I Cross Your Golden River?
Dodd, Susan     The Mourner's Bench
Donley, C. & Kohn, M., eds.     Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories
Dow, Unity     Far and Beyon'
Draper, Sharon M.     Forged by Fire
Dreuilhe, Alain Emmanuel     Mortal Embrace
Dubus, Andre     Meditations from a Movable Chair
Dubus III, Andre     Townie
Duncan, L., ed.     Trapped! Cages of Mind and Body
Edwards, Kim     The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Eggers, Dave     A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Eliot, George (Marian Evans)     Adam Bede
    The Lifted Veil
Euripides,     Medea
Farley, Margaret A.     Compassionate Respect: A Feminist Approach to Medical Ethics and Other Questions
Faulkner, William     As I Lay Dying
Faust, Drew Gilpin     This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Ferrara, Emily     The Alchemy of Grief (Alchimia del dolore)
Ferris, Jean     Invincible Summer
Fessler, Ann     The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade
Fies, Brian     Mom's Cancer
Findley, Timothy     Pilgrim
Fischer, Maribeth     Stillborn
Fiser, Karen     Losing and Finding
    Words Like Fate and Pain
Fisher, Mary     Angels in Our Midst
Flynn, Nick     Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Foer, Jonathan Safran     Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Ford, Ford Madox     The Good Soldier
Forman, Vicki     This Lovely Life
Foster, P. & Swander, M., eds.     The Healing Circle: Authors Writing of Recovery
Fraser, Gregory     Strange Pieta
Frazier, Charles     Cold Mountain
Frick, Marlena     All the Days of His Dying
Fromm, Pete     The Topic of Cancer
Frost, Robert     Home Burial
Gallagher, Tess     Candle, Lamp and Firefly
    Woodcutting on Lost Mountain
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel     Of Love and Other Demons
    The Trail of Your Blood in the Snow
Garcia Morales, Adelaida     The South
Gaskell, Elizabeth     North and South
Gilbert, S. M., ed.     Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies
Gilbert, Sandra     Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve
Glasgow, Ellen     Jordan's End
Glaspell, Susan     A Jury of Her Peers
Glass, Julia     Three Junes
Godwin, Gail     The Good Husband
Goellnicht, Donald C.     The Poet-Physician: Keats and Medical Science
Goldberg, Myla     Wickett's Remedy
Gordimer, Nadine     Get a Life
Gordon, Mary     The Shadow Man
Gosse, Edmund     Father and Son
Graham-Pole, J. & Joy, C., eds.     On Wings of Spirit: Anthology of The American Physicians' Poetry Association
Graham-Pole, John     Quick: A Pediatrician's Illustrated Poetry
Grant, Cynthia     Shadow Man
    The White Horse
Grimm, Wilhelm Karl     Dear Mili: An Old Tale
Grogan, John     Marley & Me: Love and Life with the World's Worst Dog
Groopman, Jerome E.     The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
    Kirk
    Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine
Gross, P., & Guernsey, D., eds.     Pulse: The First Year
Grover, Lorie Ann     Loose Threads
Guillen, Nicolas     Man-making Words: Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
Høeg, Peter     Pity for the Children of Vaden Town
Hacker, Marilyn     Grief
Hacker, Randi     Life As I Knew It
Haddad, A. M. & Brown, K. H., eds.     The Arduous Touch: Women's Voices in Health Care
Hahn, Kimiko     The Unbearable Heart
Hall, Donald     The Painted Bed
    Without
Hamilton, Jane     A Map of the World
    The Short History of a Prince
Handler, Jessica     Invisible Sisters: A Memoir
Harding, Paul     Tinkers
Harjo, Joy     The Dawn Appears with Butterflies
    The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Window
Harper, Michael S.     Nightmare Begins Responsibility
    Reuben, Reuben
Harrington, Kent     The Good Physician
Harris, J. W., ed.     Remembrances and Celebrations: A Book of Eulogies, Elegies, Letters, and Epitaphs
Harrison, Jeffrey     Incomplete Knowledge
Haskell, Dennis     The Recognition
Hauerwas, Stanley     God, Medicine, and Suffering
Hawkins, A. H. & Ballard, J. O., eds.     Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying, with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues
Hawkins, Anne Hunsaker     Reconstructing Illness: Studies in Pathography
Heaney, Seamus     Mid-Term Break
Hemingway, Ernest     In Another Country
Hempel, Amy     In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried
Henley, Patricia     Hummingbird House
Herling, Gustaw     The Island
Hermann, Nellie     The Cure for Grief
Hill, Lawrence     The Book of Negroes
Hill, Susan     In the Springtime of the Year
Hoffman, Amy     Hospital Time
Hogan, Linda     Tear
Hopkins, Gerard Manley     Spring and Fall
Hosseini, Khaled     The Kite Runner
Housman, A. E. (Alfred Edward)     A Shropshire Lad
Hsun, Lu     Medicine
Hugo, Richard     Graves at Elkhorn
Hugo, Victor Marie     The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Hull, Jonathan     Losing Julia
Humes, Harry     Butterfly Effect
Hutner, Elizabeth Hall     Life with Sam
Huyler, Frank     The Laws of Invisible Things
Ignatieff, Michael     Scar Tissue
Ihimaera, Witi     Tangi
Irving, John     A Widow for One Year
James, Thomas     Letters to a Stranger
Jen, Gish     Birthmates
Johnson, Hillary     My Mother Dying
Jones, Richard     For My Sister
    Leaving Town after the Funeral
    Love for the Bottle
Jonson, Ben     On My First Sonne
Jurecic, Ann     Illness as Narrative
Köepf, Michael     The Fisherman's Son
Kadohata, Cynthia     Kira Kira
Kaplan, Jonathan     The Dressing Station: A Surgeon's Chronicle of War and Medicine
Kendrick, Leatha     Second Opinion
Kenney, Susan     In Another Country
    Sailing
Kenyon, Jane     The Blue Bowl
    Coats
    Eating the Cookies
    Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
    The Sandy Hole
    What Came to Me
Kingsolver, Barbara     Animal Dreams
    The Poisonwood Bible
Kinnell, Galway     Neverland
Kis, Danilo     The Encyclopedia of the Dead
Klass, David     California Blue
Klass, Perri     Baby Doctor: A Pediatrician's Training
    Love and Modern Medicine
Klawans, Harold     Defending the Cavewoman and Other Tales of Evolutionary Neurology
Klein, M., ed.     Poets for Life: Seventy-Six Poets Respond to AIDS
Kohn, M. & Donley, C., eds.     Return to The House of God: Medical Resident Education 1978-2008
Kooser, Ted     Father: May 19, 1999
Krauser, Paula     Tears
Kusz, Natalie     Road Song
Lagomarsino, Nancy     Light from an Eclipse
Lahiri, Jhumpa     Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
    Unaccustomed Earth
Lamott, Anne     Blue Shoe
    Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
Lampert, Don     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
LaPlante, Alice     Turn of Mind
Larkin, Joan     The Blackout Sonnets
    Cold River
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)     The Blind Man
    Odour of Chrysanthemums
Layton, Elizabeth     The Life and Art of Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton
Le Carré, John     The Constant Gardener
Ledger, Kate     Remedies
Lehane, Dennis     ICU
Levenkron, Steven     The Best Little Girl in the World
Levertov, Denise     Talking to Grief
Lewis, C. S. (Clives Staples)     A Grief Observed
Lewis, Richard     The Killing Sea
Lieberman, Michael     Remnant
Lifshitz, L. H., ed.     Only Morning in Her Shoes: Poems About Old Women
Livesey, Margot     Eva Moves the Furniture
Liveson, Jay     Hanging On
Lobo Antunes, Antonio     The Land at the End of the World
Lodge, David     Therapy
    Thinks . . .
Lowry, Lois     The Giver
    A Summer to Die
Lurie, Alison     Foreign Affairs
Lynch, Thomas     Apparition & Late Fictions: A Novella and Stories
    Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
    Still Life in Milford
    The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
MacLeod, Anne     The Dark Ship
    Standing by Thistles
Mairs, Nancy     A Troubled Guest: Life and Death Stories
Malcolm, Andrew H.     This Far and No More
Mansfield, Katherine     The Man Without a Temperament
Marshall, Paule     Praisesong for the Widow
Matton, Sylvie     Rembrandt's Whore
Matute, Ana Maria     Soldiers Cry by Night
Maxwell, William     They Came Like Swallows
Maynard, Joyce     The Cloud Chamber
McCann, Richard     Ghost Letters
    The Resurrectionist
McCarthy, Cormac     The Road
McCullers, Carson     Clock Without Hands
    The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
McDaniel, Lurlene     Time to Let Go
McDermott, Alice     Charming Billy
McEwan, Ian     Atonement
    Black Dogs
    Enduring Love
McFarland, Dennis     Singing Boy
McGrath, Patrick     Dr. Haggard's Disease
McHugh, Heather     Unspeakable
McKeithen, Madge     Blue Peninsula: Essential Words for a Life of Loss and Change
McLoughlin, J., ed.     On the Death of a Parent
Menger-Anderson, Kirsten     Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain
Miles, Miska     Annie and the Old One
Millay, Edna St. Vincent     Love Is Not All; It Is Not Meat nor Drink
Miller, Sue     The Distinguished Guest
Miller-Lachmann, Lyn     Dirt Cheap
Mistry, Rohinton     Family Matters
Mitchell, S. (Silas) Weir     The Grave of Keats
    Ode on a Lycian Tomb
Mojtabai, A. G. (Ann Grace)     Soon: Tales from Hospice
Mokeddem, Malika     The Forbidden Woman
Monette, Paul     Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
    Your Sightless Days
Montgomery, Judith H.     Mercury
Moore, Lorrie     People Like That Are the Only People Here: Canonical Babbling in Peed Onk
Moraga, Cherríe L.     Heroes and Saints
Moran, Thomas     The Man in the Box
Morrison, Toni     Recitatif
Mukherjee, Siddhartha     The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
Munro, Alice     Comfort
    The Time of Death
Murphy, T. F. & Poirier, S., eds.     Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis
Murray, John     A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies
Murray, Les     The Last Hellos
Myers, K. R. & Schweizer, H., eds.     The Patient
Myers, K. R., ed.     Illness in the Academy: A Collection of Pathographies by Academics
Naylor, Gloria     Mama Day
    The Women of Brewster Place: A Novel in Seven Stories
Newth, Mette     The Dark Light
Nolan, Christopher     Under the Eye of the Clock
Nolan, Han     Dancing on the Edge
Norris, Kathleen     Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
Nuland, Sherwin B.     The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignác Semmelweis
    How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
    Lost in America: A Journey with My Father
O'Brien, Tim     The Lives of the Dead
O'Connor, Flannery     The Lame Shall Enter First
O'Connor, Mary Bradish     Say Yes Quickly
O'Hara, Frank     An Abortion
O'Nan, Stewart     A Prayer for the Dying
Oe, Kenzaburo     Aghwee the Sky Monster
Ofri, D., et al., eds.     The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
Olds, Sharon     Fate
    The Pull
Oliveira, Robin     My Name is Mary Sutter
Olsen, Sylvia     The Girl With a Baby
Ondaatje, Michael     The English Patient
Owen, Wilfred     Futility
Palmer, Tom     Cracked Marbles: Life's Lessons for a Maine Surgeon
Parks, Tim     Destiny
Pate, Alexs D.     Losing Absalom
Paterson, Katherine     Bridge to Terabethia
    Park's Quest
Patterson, Kevin     Consumption
Pears, Iain     The Dream of Scipio
Peck, Richard E.     Something for Joey
Pereira, Peter     Saying the World
Peterson, Margaret Kim     Sing Me to Heaven: The Story of a Marriage
Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla     Hygiene
Pfitsch, Patricia Curtis     Riding the Flume
Phillips, Jayne Ann     Souvenir
Picardie, Ruth     Before I Say Goodbye
Picoult, Jodi     Handle With Care
Piercy, Marge     My Mother's Body
Plath, Sylvia     Barren Woman
    Childless Woman
    Three Women
Platonov, Andrey Platonovich     The Third Son
Poe, Edgar Allan     For Annie
Poirier, Suzanne     Doctors in the Making: Memoirs and Medical Education
Polacco, Patricia     The Keeping Quilt
Pope, Robert     Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer
Porter, Katherine Anne     Holiday
Price, Jill     The Woman Who Can't Forget
Proulx, E. Annie     The Shipping News
Radetsky, Michael     Sudden Intimacies
Rasebotsa, N., Samuelson, M. & Thomas, K., eds.     Nobody Ever Said AIDS: Poems and Stories from Southern Africa
Raymond, Linda     Rocking the Babies
Remen, Rachel Naomi     My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Rhett, K., ed.     Survival Stories: Memoirs of Crisis
Rich, Adrienne     A Woman Dead In Her Forties
Rinaldi, Ann     An Acquaintance with Darkness
Robinson, Edwin Arlington     Annandale Again
Robinson, Marilynne     Gilead
Rodowsky, Colby     Remembering Mog
Rogoff, Marianne     Silvie's Life
Rollin, Betty     First, You Cry, excerpt from
Rosenblum, Barbara     Cancer in Two Voices
Roth, Philip     Nemesis
    Patrimony, A True Story
Rowe, Michael     The Book of Jesse: A Story of Youth, Illness, and Medicine.
Rowe, Vernon     Sea Creatures and Other Poems
Rowling, Joanne Kathleen     Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
    Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Roy, Arundhati     The God of Small Things
Russell, Lori     One Last Time
Santucci, Barbara     Anna's Corn
Sappol, Michael     A Traffic of Dead Bodies: Anatomy and Embodied Social Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Scannell, Kate     Death of the Good Doctor: Lessons from the Heart of the AIDS Epidemic
Schaefer, Judy, ed.     The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets
Schmitt, Eric-Emmanuel     Oscar and the Lady in Pink
Schneider, Robert     Brother of Sleep
Schneiderman, L. J.     The Appointment
Schwartz, Lynne Sharon     Balancing Acts
    Referred Pain
    The Wrath-Bearing Tree
Scott, Joanna     Various Antidotes
Sebold, Alice     The Lovely Bones
Secundy, M. G. & Nixon, L. L., eds.     Trials, Tribulations, and Celebrations: African American Perspectives on Health, Illness, Aging and Loss
Sedgwick, Marcus     The Foreshadowing
Selwyn, Peter     Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor
Selzer, Richard     The Doctor Stories
    The Exact Location of the Soul
    Tom and Lily
    The Whistlers' Room: Stories and Essays
    Whither Thou Goest
Sergi, P. & Gorman, G., eds.     A Call to Nursing: Nurses' Stories about Challenge and Commitment
Service, Robert     Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Shafer, Audrey     The Mailbox
Shakespeare, William     Hamlet
    King Lear
    Macbeth
    Othello
    Richard III
Shapiro, Alan     Song and Dance
    Vigil
Shapiro, Dan     Delivering Doctor Amelia
Shapshay, S., ed.     Bioethics at the Movies
Shawn, Allen     Wish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
Shay, Jonathan     Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character
Sheppard, Gordon     HA! A Self Murder Mystery
Shields, Carol     The Stone Diaries
    Unless
Shumaker, Peggy     Just Breathe Normally
Sidhwa, Bapsi     Cracking India
Silbert, Layle     Losses
Simmons, Philip     Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Sirof, Harriet     Because She's My Friend
Skloot, Rebecca     The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Slatkin, Marcia     I Kidnap My Mother: Alzheimer's Poems
Slavitt, David R.     The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation
Smiley, Jane G.     The Age of Grief
Smith, Dinitia     The Illusionist
Smith, Sybil     A Dog Named Hopi
Snodgrass, W. D.     Viewing the Body
Sophocles,     Philoctetes
Spann, C. & Haag, J., eds.     Blood on the Page: Collected Writings of Sutterwriters
Spann, C., ed.     Poet Healer: Contemporary Poems for Health & Healing
Spark, Debra     Last Things
St. Andrews, B. A. (Bonnie)     Alzheimer's
Stanford, Ann Folwell     Bodies in a Broken World
Stanton, Maura     Concussion
Steinbeck, John     The Pastures of Heaven
Stone, John     Answering The Phone
    Talking to the Family
    Two Dreams of Leukemia
Stone, Ruth     In the Next Galaxy
Strauss, Ken     La Tendresse
Studer, Constance     Body Language
    Prayer to a Purple God
Styron, William     A Tidewater Morning
Sullivan, Jacqueline Levering     Annie's War
Swanson, Julie A.     Going for the Record
Talarigo, Jeff     The Pearl Diver
Tan, Amy     The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings
Thomas, Dylan     Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
    A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Thornton, Lawrence     Imagining Argentina
Tilghman, Christopher     Things Left Undone
Tregebov, Rhea     The Proving Grounds
Trevor, Douglas     The Surprising Weight of the Body's Organs
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeievich     The District Doctor
Tyszka, Alberto Barrera     The Sickness
vanMeenan, K. & Rossiter, C., eds.     Giving Sorrow Words: Poems of Strength and Solace
Vann, David     Legend of a Suicide
Verghese, Abraham     Cutting for Stone
    The Tennis Partner
Vine, Barbara     The Blood Doctor
Viorst, Judith     The Tenth Good Thing About Barney
Vowell, Sarah     Assassination Vacation
Wagner, Jan Costin     Silence
Wagner, Shelly     The Andrew Poems
Walker, Alice     The Abortion
Walker, Daly     I Am the Grass
Walker, S. B. & Roffman, R.D., eds.     Life on the Line
Wallace, David Foster     Incarnations of Burned Children
Walls, Jeannette     The Glass Castle
Ward, Mary Augusta (Mrs. Humphry)     Marcella
Warren, Samuel     Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician
Watson, Larry     Montana 1948
Weigl, Bruce     Archeology of the Circle. New and Selected Poems
Weinberger, Florence     Carnal Fragrance
Wexler, Alice     Mapping Fate: A Memoir of Family, Risk, and Genetic Research
Whelan, Gloria     Forgive the River, Forgive the Sky
    A Time to Keep Silent
Wigfall, Clare     Safe
Wilber, Ken     Grace and Grit
Wilkins, R., ed.     The Doctor's Quotation Book: A Medical Miscellany
Williams, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)     Grief
    Misgivings
    Villanelle of the Suicide's Mother
Williams, Lori Aurelia     Broken China
Williams, Marie Sheppard     Wilma Bremer's Funeral
Williams, Philip Lee     All the Western Stars
Williams, Terry Tempest     The Village Watchman
Williams, William Carlos     Jean Beicke
Wilson, Lanford     A Poster of the Cosmos
Wineberg, Ronna     Second Language
Wolff, Tobias     Casualty
Wolitzer, Hilma     Mother
Yalom, Irvin     When Nietzsche Wept
Yourcenar, Marguerite     Memoirs of Hadrian
Zalben, Jane Breskin     Pearl's Marigolds for Grandpa
Zwerdling, Michael     Postcards of Nursing: A Worldwide Tribute